Early Grab Fever...

So, on our way back from LA and staying with Melcher on his floor, we stopped in AZ for 1.5 days.
This video was from our first night when we rolled into AZ around 7pm on the 15th of February.
We stayed with mai friends Frog & Joy.

We hooked up with Frog & Al to come skate with us before Frog had to go to work at 10pm.
The first place we went was this ditch, this is Al with a backside grab off the ditch wall, I guess it could be called early grab. Not early in the traditional sense where you are already grabbing before you ride up. He rides up rolls for a bit then yanks off. (not that way, you sicko)

Al used to own First Gear skate shop, before selling it to Slim and moving to AZ.
Slim then closed first gear and Matt the employee bought and re-opened it under the name Modest. They have a pretty sick team and a killer video that's also KNDA on the art side, but not OTT (over the top) like those Lakai / Girl things.
First Gear had soem names back then, when they were weeee little innocent kids from the subbies of Chicago, that you might know now like Marisa Dal Santo, Pat Pasquale, Billy Teichen, and Zack Stuart-Fry. They also had a video called Jinxed. (in 4 parts on youtube)

As of the end of this post I am currently listening to "Bruce" by Bongwater from the album "Double Bummer (Disc 2)" released in 1988 on guitarist Mark Kramer's, Shimmy Disc record label.